Abstract: A wound irrigation/fluid containment system having a flexible bag body defining a containment space, the bag body including walls and at least one opening with a seal, means for accessing through the bag body walls to the containment space and means for inflating portions of the walls to provide rigidity and strength to the walls. The containment device isolates a wound on a person and is capable of draining fluids away from the wound.

Abstract: An apparatus and method for controlling signal gain and reference black level of a video signal. Magnitudes of signal gain and reference voltage for a subject video signal are determined by a common digital control signal, while the reference voltage determines the reference black level.

Abstract: A flat panel X-ray imaging system capable of acquiring images at multiple frame rates with multiple fields of view.

Abstract: Apparatus and method for providing for packet data communication between a single-input-single-output (SISO) transceiver and a single-input-multiple-output/multiple-input-single-output (SIMO/MISO) transceiver. Receive channel coefficients representing relative strengths of individual signals received via multiple spatially diverse antenna elements and corresponding to a wireless data signal originating from a particular SISO radio frequency (RF) transceiver are used to provide substantially complementary transmit channel coefficients for use in producing outgoing RF signals to be transmitted via the same antenna elements for reception by such particular SISO RF transceiver.

Abstract: An impedance compensation circuit generates per-group pull-up impedance information and per-group pull-down impedance information to calibrate a plurality of input/output pads and dynamically updates impedance information on a per channel basis. A group refers to a group of I/O pads having similar output drive strengths in a channel. A channel refers to all I/O pads, which collectively provide a bus interface to an external device. For example, all the I/O pads interfacing with a memory module may be grouped into a channel, and address I/O pads in a channel may be arranged into a “group.” Memory I/O pads may be grouped together into a channel since memory interface pads have input/output characteristics that may be different from those of other types of I/O pads in the chip. According to one embodiment, per-group programmable offset information provides calibration information that may be different for each group in each channel.

Abstract: A frame buffer is divided into tiles of, for example, 32 by 32 pixels. Triangles (and portions thereof) that are within a given tile are rasterized one triangle at a time into the tile location. This process repeats for each tile in the image frame. A sorting circuit generates control bits representing a vertical order of the vertices of a current triangle. A series of multiplexers vertically sorts the vertices bases on these control bits. A region calculation circuit generates region bits representing a location each of the vertices with respect to the current tile. A trivial discard of the triangle data occurs if the region bits indicate that the entire triangle lies outside of the tile. Subsequently, an initial rasterization starting point is estimated based on the region bits to lower the time needed for the rasterizer to find the first pixel of the current triangle to be assigned values.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for enlarging an output display includes a message hook application capable of receiving a magnification event indicator, wherein the magnification event indicator includes a magnification factor. The method and apparatus further includes a character generator coupled to the message hook application wherein the character generator receives a text call from the message hook application. The character generator thereupon generates a magnified character set including a plurality of characters enlarged by the magnification factor. A display driver is coupled to the message hook application and the character generator, wherein the display driver receives the character set at the magnified font size and caches the character set. A direct draw surface is coupled to the display driver such that the direct draw surface receive one or more of the characters enlarged by the magnification factor.

Abstract: A telescoping slide rail assembly including interconnected mounting, intermediate and stationary slide rails movable relative to one another to extend and retract the mounting and intermediate slide rails relative to the stationary slide rail between fully extended and retracted positions. The intermediate slide rail includes a latching mechanism for interconnecting the intermediate and stationary slide rails in the fully extended position and the mounting slide rail includes an alignment device to maintain orientation between the mounting slide rail and the intermediate slide rail.

Abstract: A digitally programmable gain control circuit and method of operating the same is disclosed. The gain control circuit includes a programmable gain amplifier having an amplifier structure represented by a plurality of overlapping discrete monotonic transfer function segments, wherein at least one point of non-monotonicity occurs among one or more of the plurality of overlapping discrete monotonic transfer function segments, and a gain segment translator circuit operative to translate a monotonic gain value to a segment code to match the non-monotonic characteristics of the programmable gain amplifier. The programmability of the gain amplifier is provided by a coarse gain control circuit and a fine gain control circuit.

Abstract: An integrated photosensitive device with a metal-insulator-semiconductor (MIS) photodiode constructed with one or more substantially continuous layers of semiconductor material and with a substantially continuous layer of dielectric material.

Abstract: A differential amplifier circuit with feedback to increase common mode loop gain at low frequencies.

Abstract: A circuit and method are provided for performing built-in test of output signal magnitudes of integrated differential signal generator circuitry. In accordance with one embodiment, first upper and lower reference voltages and second upper and lower reference voltages are received via a plurality of reference electrodes, wherein: a difference between the first and upper and lower reference voltages comprises a first difference magnitude; a difference between the second upper and lower reference voltages comprises a second difference magnitude; and the first difference magnitude is greater than the second difference magnitude. Test signal generator circuitry provides a plurality of binary signals with respective successions of opposing signal states.

Abstract: A multiband and multimode transmitter circuit (200) includes two separate oscillators, such as at least a first oscillator circuit (60), a second oscillator circuit (62), a corresponding first signal processing circuit (64), and second signal processing circuit (66) to produce a first output frequency signal (78) defined within the first or second band of frequencies in response to a transmitter input signal (46). Each oscillator and corresponding signal processing circuit (64, 66) may be optimized for the lowest power consumption while meeting the noise performance criteria in each of the multiple frequency bands. The multiband and multimode transmitter circuit (200) may produce the transmitter output signal (36) with either linear modulation or nonlinear modulation and at a first band or second band frequencies.

Abstract: An analog signal gain controller and equalizer with an increased signal bandwidth for reducing intersymbol interference (ISI) within a digital data signal.

Abstract: A container for foodstuffs including a carton, tray and pad, each formed from a cut and creased blank of foldable sheet material. The carton is substantially a tubular element having end panels for enclosing the carton. A plurality of corner locks are provided to maintain the end panels oriented in a closed position. Handles formed in the carton permit stacking of the containers and easy transportation.

Abstract: A barrier net (12) across a space defined by the fuselage (6) of an aircraft and a floor (7) of the aircraft comprising a first plurality of parallel lengths (13) orientated in a first direction transverse to a second plurality of parallel lengths (14) orientated in a second direction wherein the lengths (13, 14) have fastening means at each end which provide a means for fastening the net to attachment points on the aircraft fuselage (6), characterised in that neither the first nor the second plurality of lengths (13, 14) is parallel to said floor (7).

Abstract: An adaptive coefficient signal generator for use in an adaptive signal equalizer with fractionally-spaced feedback. The signals representing the feedback tap coefficients are generated in conjunction with a timing interpolation parameter such that the fractionally-spaced feedback circuitry dynamically emulates symbol-spaced feedback circuitry.

Abstract: A multimode wireless receiver circuit (10) includes multi-receiver control and interference detection logic (50) and least two separate receivers: a first receiver (20) associated with a first radio access technology and a second receiver (30) associated with a second radio access technology. The multi-receiver control and interference detection logic (50) simultaneously controls the second receiver (30) to detect an interference blocker signal (100), while the first receiver (20) receives at least a portion of the wireless signal (80) and the interference product signal (90). In response to the second receiver (30) detecting the interference blocker signal (100), the multi-receiver control and interference detection logic (50) adjusts at least one operating condition of the first receiver (20) such that the interference product signal (90) received by the first receiver (20) is reduced.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for selective distributed speech recognition includes an embedded speech recognition engine (104) and a dialog manager (102), such as a browser, coupled to the embedded speech recognition engine (104). The method and apparatus further includes the dialog manager (102) being operably couple able to at least one external speech recognition engine (106), such as a WLAN speech recognition engine (108) or a network speech recognition engine (110). The method and apparatus further includes preference information (114), environment information (112) and a speech input (116) all provided to the dialog manager (102). The dialog manager (102), in response to the preference information (114) and the environment information (112), provides the speech input (116) to the embedded speech recognition engine (104), the WLAN speech recognition engine (108) or the network speech recognition engine (110).

Abstract: A load sensing buffer circuit for providing a buffered clock signal with controlled switching current noise (di/dt) in which the input clock signal is selectively gated to provide successively generated source and sink current components as part of the buffered output signal, with the timing of such current components being dependent upon load capacitance.